The only way to take advantage of discounts is to decide & pay.

We ordered (client paid) all the Wolf & Subzero in July for an early 2022 install.

I appreciate the suggestion. Even if I had room to store it, I'd have to transport it somehow to the new place; not a simple (or inexpensive) undertaking.

Jeffrey, who is storing the appliances until they're installed, and for how long do you think they'll be stored?

Appliance dealers are storing paid for appliances until we're ready for delivery.

Be careful big or small. Big boxes took a client's payments then couldnt produce the goods when needed as they don't store. Had to sub.

I'm still in design but called my builder who explained that I can order now and take delivery next year when the home is ready for appliances.

I also did the same thing about 10 years ago with the local Wolf/SubZ dealer who only required a 10% deposit.

Have you asked your builder to call the retailer you're speaking with to see if they will hold/ store the appliances for the builder? They might not 'charge' to store the appliances if the builder is the one who places the order. Just a thought

We just finished building. But last year I bought appliances and took delivery of the wall ovens and DW right away. Stored them in our rental home. That was over 6mo before they were installed. The gas range and refrigerator took 5mo to in come in. o glad we placed order when we did.

I just got an email from a local appliance store that BlueStar will also be increasing their prices on October 1st. In case that matters to anybody reading.

For most products required for building the once per year standard price increase has now become the every 3 months standard price increase!

chispa, that seems to be true and so annoying! At this rate there will be 3 or 4 more price increases before we even finish our house plans.

An update--i checked with a different retailer (a larger one), and they confirmed the increase dates but not the amount of the increase. They said they didn't have the info yet. So i contacted the rep at the Miele Experience Center i visited. He also confirmed the date of the increase and said the amount of increase had not gone out yet, and even he didn't have it. So the small store i was dealing with made up the amounts? or guessed? or made a mistake, if i'm being charitable?

I am still so early in my process that I don't think it makes sense for me to order yet--we don't have a builder yet, and as a few people pointed out, the builder could help in managing some of this stuff.

If you don't have a builder, do you have plans and some accurate bids yet?

we have an architect, and we're in the process. the plans aren't done yet, but i know most of the appliances i want.

My point is what if in a few months the house quote comes back much higher than you thought and you decide not to build or to postpone? You would have appliances you don't need. You might want to wait to order appliances once you have a signed contract. Ordering too soon might also have you missing out on a new model that might have better specs.

Covid delayed the start of our project by about 7 months, but when covid started we had no clue how long that delay would be, so I'm glad I didn't rush to pre-order any stuff.

That makes a lot of sense! I don't think we'd postpone, but we would probably reconfigure the plan if that happened.